About

I'm Dustin — a fullstack DevOps engineer who loves building reliable systems and great player experiences. I run Rustworks and operate gaming platforms like Tropical Rust and Havoc Rust.

I work across the stack, from infrastructure and backend services to front-end interfaces. My focus is to build systems that are easy to operate, scale predictably, and make people smile when they use them.

When I'm not shipping features, I'm tuning servers, optimizing performance, or talking with the community about what would make the game better.

How I work

  • Start simple, ship quickly, iterate with feedback.
  • Automate what hurts; measure what matters.
  • Design for operability: logs, metrics, alerts, runbooks.
  • Accessibility and performance aren’t extras — they’re defaults.

What I do

  • • System design & automation
  • • Observability & operations
  • • Web & API development
  • • Game server management

Values

  • • Player experience comes first
  • • Simple beats clever
  • • Shipping > perfect

Now

  • • Running Rustworks
  • • Building features for Tropical Rust
  • • Exploring new ways to improve uptime